August 19, 2009

Reaching College Tribes Around Athens

Just finished Benson Hines' Reaching The College Tribes - if you care about college students, the contemporary university culture, and/or mission(s) then you should check it out (for free) here.

One of the concepts that I found most helpful in the book is the idea of Aggressive Progress - 'a lifetime of strategic modifications in response to changing students, a changing campus, a growing understanding of the tribe, and God's work within the ministry and its leaders' (52). Such progress isn't measured by numeric growth per se, choosing instead to take a much broader view of the ever-expanding work of God, including: